Bits & Pieces (3/7/12)

The Privilege of Serving in the Church – C.J. Mahaney writes about the upcoming NEXT conference, but the real money quotation in this post is borrowed from John Stott – ““If the church was worth his blood, is it not worth our labour? The privilege of serving it is established by the preciousness of the price paid for its purchase.”

The Christian Life is Not Safe – Taking a page from C.S. Lewis, this is a reminder from Tim Challies that the Christian life was never designed to be safe, so perhaps we should reconsider the value we place on the “safety” we strive so hard to protect.